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Thursday, October 3, 2013

I should suppose that moral, political, and practical
considerations would dictate that a very first principle of that wisdom
would be an insistence upon avoiding secrecy for its own sake. For when
everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system
becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and to be
manipulated by those intent on self protection or self-promotion. I
should suppose, in short, that the hallmark of a truly effective
internal security system would be the maximum possible disclosure,
recognizing that secrecy can best be preserved only when credibility is
truly maintained.